Big Government

Prosecutors have charged a Plainville, Massachusetts teen with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly encouraging a friend to kill himself in a parking lot last July. The charge against Michelle Carter, now 18, reports the Boston Globe, claims she helped Conrad Roy

On the day that the House prepared to collapse and pass a DHS bill that funds President Obama's executive amnesty, some lawmakers are talking tough about the FCC's "net neutering" actions last week. But they haven't offered any proposals to push back.

Following his stirring address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will return home, having made his point about the dangers of the Iran deal currently on the table. The question is: what next for Congress? President Barack Obama has vowed to veto any new sanctions--and may have sown enough division in his party to prevent an override. Yet there is another bill in the works that, after Tuesday, Obama may find he cannot refuse.

Support of the aggressive pursuit of deportation for illegal aliens has remained strong in Arizona — even after years of relentless media efforts to demonize SB 1070, the Arizona bill that was among the nation’s most strict anti-illegal immigration efforts in existence. SB 1070, or properly named the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act, sparked wide criticism across the nation — criticism that often devolved into allegations of racism or racial profiling. However, a recent poll conducted by a cooperative effort between the Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University and the Morrison Institute for Public Policy showed that there was no significant difference between attitudes in Latino communities and white communities on the issue. According to the Morrison Institute, "Whites (53 percent) and Latinos (47 percent)" agreed with the statement: "“Arizona should aggressively pursue the deportation of undocumented immigrants."

In January 2013, one month after the heinous attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) successfully pressed for the SAFE Act, a massive body of gun control legislation aimed at curbing violent crime. Just two years later, however, the number of shootings and murders have increased.

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said it was a “shocking insult” to America’s ally Israel that President Barack Obama and members of his administration snubbed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by not attending his Tuesday address to a joint session